[IGTC] 2024 Intercontinental GT Challenge Series

[erwin greven]

Bottom post of the previous page:

Calm start of the race. No crashes, no FCY's, no SC...
S. van der Linde, Grenier and Engel are the first three.

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Just on an hour and a half and the first round of scheduled stops has happened. The 912 Porsche was quickest and leads the race, but the first 7 cars are split by 7 seconds.

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40 laps in

colour backgrounds on numbers below

Plain (no colour) are Pro.
Blue is Silver class
Green is Pro-Am
Pink is Invitational
Yellow is GT4.

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2nd pit stops just finishjing off for the leaders. Itlooks like the £75 Sun Energy car was stopped for a long time, but Habul is in the car now.... he will get the time back.

See how it pans out. Th Porsche seems to be quite fuel efficient and I suspect the 912 is going to have an increased lead now.

Looks like the 912 has now opened a 20+ second lead over the #130 Gruppe M Merc. The Porsches must be right on the minimum stop time.

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Just under 9 hours 30 mins to go and positions after the second stops. No major incidents, FCYs or much interruption at all. Could be looking for a record number of laps / klms. w just got over 2000 klms last year.

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Spoke too soon.... we have an invitational Vortex #701 in the sand traps and we have the first SC of the race.

Got a few heading for the pits even though it less than 10 laps into the stint. The two BMWs both stopped but the leading two cars didnt. Feeney is now in the 888 car so they stopped as well. Cheap stops though.even though they have to do a mimnimum stop time its a stop under FCY

[Vassago]

Funny since I hardly remember Supercars going into that gravel trap too often?

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The Vortex that was in the sand has been extracted now and is heading for pit lane. We should get a restart soon.

[Vassago]

Didn't expect to see Paul Tracy at Bathurst

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Didn't expect to see Paul Tracy at Bathurst

Yeah he has done the 12 hour before... 2019 I think. He is driving the #702 IRC pic below this year . Its in th Invitational class.








About to go green again.

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DTP for #111 AMG of Gray for a contact over the mountain which spun the #47. Both cars continued.

[Vassago]

Big front-end hit for #91 in Turn 2. FCY.

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Another SC called....the #91 MARC car into the wall hard and stopped across the track goin up towards the cutting.

The leaders pit including the BMWs stop again. Habul stays out and sits 2nd but will need to stop within a dozen or so laps.

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The #22 that was leading by dint of staying out has now pitted so Habul inherits the lead!

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The 75 of Habul pitted next time round so Campbell in the #912 leads again from the #46 and #32 BMWs and the #888 Merc

order a lap or so after the restart.

[Vassago]

#111 came back out after repairs and hit the wall in Turn 2 straight away. But he continues...